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Monsoon rains in Pakistan have been linked to more than 110 deaths including dozens of children since they arrived in late ...
Framing floods as ‘natural disasters’ deflects from the reality that vulnerability must exist before a crisis can emerge. Pakistan’s floods are a disaster – but they didn’t have to be Home ...
More than one third of Pakistan is underwater as deadly floods spread across the South Asian country since-mid-June, according to satellite images from the European Space Agency (ESA), threatening ...
In 2022, Pakistan’s southern and southwestern regions experienced devastating floods triggered by climate change-induced unusually heavy monsoon rains, killing more than 1,700 people, affecting ...
The percentage of Pakistan’s forest area is, however, not without contestation, with the figure varying between 2.2pc and 5.1pc. What is important to remember is that trees along the land-water ...
Unfortunately, Pakistan has long suffered the consequences of inadequate disaster preparedness.The 2005 earthquake in Muzaffarabad killed nearly 83,000 people in Balakot, Bagh, and Muzaffarabad ...
Pakistan Braces for More Climate Disasters as Cyclone Approaches After evacuating more than 67,000 people before a severe cyclone makes landfall, the country has warned another round of extreme ...
It’s not just climate change – corruption, bad governance, poor planning, and faulty water management are also to blame for the scale of the current disaster.
CALLS FOR THE WEST TO HELP. Pakistan ranks as the world’s fifth-most vulnerable country to climate-induced disasters, despite contributing less than 1 per cent to global greenhouse gas emissions.
Pakistan’s Vulnerability to Disaster Was Through the Roof. Then Came the Floods ... I’ve seen estimates that wheat alone in Pakistan is responsible for 2 percent of G.D.P. and 3.5 percent of ...
Pakistan’s Floods Are a Man-Made Disaster By Kiyya Baloch It's not just climate change – corruption, bad governance, poor planning, and faulty water management are also to blame for the scale ...
Pakistan Declares Day of Mourning for Migrant Ship Disaster Off Greece Officials say more than 100 Pakistanis were among those killed when a fishing boat overloaded with migrants capsized in deep ...